Crossing the border with Blue Jays beat reporter Jordan Bastian.

Game #67: Nats at Jats pregame

After a lovely day off, which consisted of a great jog along the lakefront and taking in a movie with my wife, I am back at the Rogers Centre — still exhausted and wondering when my body is going to get off West Coast time. Unlike the Jays fans who came out to the ballpark last night, I got to enjoy the beautiful weather. My wife and I saw the dome was closed around game time last night, and she said, "It must be broken." Sure enough. Well, it’s open again today for Game 2, which is about to get underway. So here’s today’s pregame:

NOTES: Not much. The roof is working again, and there’s no news yet on RHP Tomo Ohka’s status. Toronto has until Monday to sort his situation out, which will likely end in his release. … Zaun was back in the lineup for the second day in a row, even though manager John Gibbons said Friday that he’d probably rest on Saturday. … Jays have gone 12-5 at home since May 11, which is the best home mark over that span in the Majors.

Marcum and McGowan are both going well. I can’t remember when we had a better top 4 in the starting rotation. I like Marcum starting between Burnett and McGowan, giving a different look. Now if Chachin and League can make it back strong and healthy, we could have the best pitching in the American League.

Looks like we got lucky with Burnett, and he’ll only miss one start-now that is good news.

Nice to see Wells coming out of his slump. Hopefully the pendulum turns the other for him and he gets super hot for a while.

Does anyone have any idea when Johnson is expected to return?

If this offense gets hot, this team could go on a serious roll and challenge for the wild card-There’s 95 games left

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